for a reader used to the largely grey pages
of the WSJ, those are very cool & vivid;

a picture is worth 1,000 words.

11:13 am June 26, 2009

mike k wrote:

The EXIF data within these images does not appear to contain details about the camera used to take them. It would be nice to see that data left in if possible.

8:26 pm July 26, 2009

btrog wrote:

Great post, but your caption about the "hashish addicts" confused me a bit. Hashish is nothing more than a condensed sticky ball of thc, the active chemical in marijuana that gives the smoker a high.

Marijuana has been shown to have no addictive properties and is safer than any other drug that I've heard of.

There have been no clinical overdoses on marijuana because, well, it's impossible.

Labeling the men in the picture as addicts seems to give the impression that they're shooting up heroin or something of that nature.

I suggest giving the pic a new caption, because using the term addict for using something as natural and safe as cannabis, is like calling someone guzzling water a "binge drinker".

2:09 pm July 27, 2009

jplax wrote:

Amen, btrog.

6:10 am July 28, 2009

Phil E. Drifter wrote:

I agree with btrog. Using the term 'addict' automatically implies that they're 'out of control' which is clearly not the case. Cannabis is very safe, much, much safer than any other drug, legal or not, and it's illegality is based on complete lies and racism. After the north won the Civil war (1865) and outlawed slavery, the corrupt federal government looked for ways to replace their lost slave labor. First they introduced 'grandfather clauses' which I studied in grade school. Then when those grandfather clauses were struck down as unconstitutional, Uncle Sam ran smear campaigns, 'yellow journalism' to make the public think that cannabis really was dangerous, but in fact it was the threat of cannabis as an industry that threatened so many other industries paper, cotton, tobacco, medicine, building materials, food just to name a few) that those industries banded together to contribute money to get the federal government to outlaw cannabis.

Read tinyurl.com/1mn for the real history behind the 'war on (some) drugs.

I lost 80% of my hearing due to ototoxic 'medicines' that were given to me when I was hospitalized...because I got stupid drunk and wrecked both myself and my brand new motorcycle in 2001.

6:15 am July 28, 2009

Phil E. Drifter wrote:

Oh, the WSJ may be owned by Hearst newspapers, named after William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper tycoon and 'father of yellow journalism' because he was most threatened by the possibility of paper being made from hemp (it is superior, after all, over wood pulp paper because it doesn't yellow over time) and he owned thousands of acres of forest which he used to feed his newspaper presses around the country. If paper was made from annually renewable hemp instead of his old growth forests, he would have lost millions (billions in today's dollars).